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    6 Key Points on Efforts to Oust Trump in Final Days

    After the riot at the Capitol, congressional Democrats increasingly are calling for the removal of President Donald Trump before his term expires Jan. 20, either through a second impeachment or by invoking the 25th Amendment.  Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass., an assistant House speaker, said  lawmakers could vote on impeachment within a week.  After vowing never…
    Fred Lucas
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    Biden Says Trump Not Attending His Inauguration Is ‘a Good Thing’

    President-elect Joe Biden said Friday that President Donald Trump not attending his inauguration is “a good thing.” “I was told that, on the way up here, way over here, that he indicated he wasn’t going to show up at the inauguration. One of the few things he and I have ever agreed on. It’s a…
    Mary Rose Corkery
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    Sen. Sasse Hints of Backing Bid to Impeach Trump Again

    Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., said Friday morning that he would be open to considering articles of impeachment from the House. “If they come together and have a process, I will definitely consider what articles they might move, because as I told you, I believe the president has disregarded his oath of office,” Sasse said on “CBS This…
    Andrew Trunsky
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    Barr Accuses Trump of ‘Orchestrating a Mob’ and ‘Betrayal of His Office and Supporters’

    Former Attorney General William Barr accused President Donald Trump on Thursday of “orchestrating a mob” of his supporters to pressure Congress to overturn the presidential election. In a statement to the Associated Press, Barr asserted that Trump’s actions to overturn the election were a “betrayal of his office and supporters.” He further said that “orchestrating a…
    Chuck Ross
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    Trump Pledges ‘Orderly Transition’ of Power to Biden

    President Donald Trump assured the nation early Thursday that “an orderly transition” will occur now that Congress has certified the Electoral College vote in which Joe Biden defeated Trump to become the 46th president of the United States. “Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out,…
    Ken McIntyre
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    Trump to Capitol Protesters: ‘Go Home.’ Biden Calls It ‘Insurrection’

    President Donald Trump asked supporters who gathered in Washington to “go home” late Wednesday afternoon after a large group broke into the Capitol building and overwhelmed Capitol Police.  “This was a fraudulent election, but we can’t play into the hands of these people,” Trump said in a prerecorded video, recorded outside the White House and…
    Ken McIntyre
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    Capitol in Lockdown as Pro-Trump Protesters Breach Building

    Hundreds of protesters loyal to President Donald Trump made their way into the Capitol building Wednesday afternoon, interrupting lawmakers’ debate of the presidential election results and forcing the evacuation of Vice President Mike Pence as Capitol Police struggled to contain the situation. Police had moved to block thousands of pro-Trump protesters from getting too close…
    Ken McIntyre
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    Why These 2 Floridians Are Traveling to DC to March for Trump

    Supporters of President Donald Trump from around the country will gather Wednesday in Washington, D.C., to hold a March for Trump near the White House to “demand transparency and election integrity.”  Stephanie Maxey and Teri Regnier traveled on a bus up from Florida to join the event, and they join “The Daily Signal Podcast” live…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Preserving America’s Past Through Trump’s 1776 Commission

    The future of America rests largely upon the rising generation, a generation that is being taught to embrace far-left progressive ideology about America and its founding. To combat the rising anti-American sentiment taught in classrooms across the country, President Donald Trump appointed 18 political and thought leaders to the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission. Carol M….
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Honors Catholic Martyr St. Thomas Becket for Defense of Religious Liberty

    President Donald Trump declared Dec. 29 the anniversary of the Roman Catholic martyr St. Thomas Becket, honoring the 12th-century English bishop as “a lion of religious liberty.” “Thomas Becket’s death serves as a powerful and timeless reminder to every American that our freedom from religious persecution is not a mere luxury or accident of history,…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Trump Shouldn’t Pardon Dark Web ‘Pirate’ Ulbricht

    Some are urging President Donald Trump to consider pardoning a pirate.  It’s been some time since anyone has uttered those words, but make no mistake, this pirate is just as dangerous and deserving of punishment as those who sailed the high seas centuries ago. Ross Ulbricht used “Dread Pirate Roberts” as his sobriquet as he…
    Zack Smith
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    Under Trump’s Tenure, Promises Made Were Promises Kept

    A retrospective on President Donald Trump’s four years in office must be put in perspective of what he himself promised to accomplish when he ran: Make America Great Again. To answer the question requires, of course, defining what makes America great and asking to what extent Trump put the nation on course toward this goal….
    Star Parker
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    Trump Announces Members of Commission Focused on Teaching Youth About America’s Founding

    President Donald Trump has called upon 18 conservative leaders to serve on a new commission focused on teaching the next generation the truth about America’s Founding Fathers and the principles contained in the Constitution. At the White House Friday, Trump named the members of the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission, which was first announced Nov. 2….
    Virginia Allen
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    Justices Punt on Census Apportionment, Toss NY Injunction Against Trump

    So, will illegal aliens be included in the population count used for apportionment of the House of Representatives? We still don’t know.  In a 6-to-3 decision Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court held that it was too early to make a decision on the issue and that New York and the other states challenging the Trump…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    2 Paths for Biden: Adopt Trump Tactics or Tailspin

    There is as yet no known, easily accessible cure for COVID-19. Over the past year, lots of old and new drugs and supplements—Ivermectin, azithromycin, Remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, vitamin D, vitamin C, zinc, aspirin, Pepcid, and others—have shown at least some anecdotal value in ameliorating the effects of early-stage COVID-19. Clinical physicians treating patients in hospitals often…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Media Will Treat Biden Very Differently Than Trump

    For four years, we heard that President Donald Trump is a threat to freedom of the press. The Washington Post signaled its own faux bravery by adopting the slogan “Democracy Dies in Darkness” at the top of its masthead. CNN began running commercials about facts being facts, and apples being apples rather than bananas (unless,…
    Ben Shapiro
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    The House Voted a Year Ago to Impeach Trump. Here’s What You Need to Know About That.

    Dec. 18 will mark one year since the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump. Looking back, what happened “behind the scenes” of the impeachment proceedings? Fred Lucas, the chief national affairs correspondent for The Daily Signal and author of “Abuse of Power: Inside the Three-Year Campaign to Impeach Donald Trump,” joins “The…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    In Blow to Trump, Supreme Court Rejects Texas’ Election Lawsuit

    In a dramatic blow to President Donald Trump’s attempts to challenge the unofficial election results, the Supreme Court on Friday evening rejected a Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn the outcome in four battleground states.  The high court’s one-page opinion said Texas did not have standing to sue over election procedures in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Is Still Winning on the Economy

    Some people can’t handle success. The latest jobs report shows that despite the pandemic, President Donald Trump’s policies of lower taxes and reducing regulations continue to work. Raising taxes and imposing regulations, as former Vice President Joe Biden has pledged to do, has historically had the opposite effect, but there are people who continue to…
    Cal Thomas
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    Trump Won His Other Campaign—to Destroy Media Credibility

    Convinced that President Donald Trump lost his bid for reelection, the media suddenly became less hysterical. Just like that, the media, at least to some degree, rediscovered concepts such as fairness and perspective, AWOL the last four years. Two weeks after the election, New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Nicholas Kristof haltingly, grudgingly, and reluctantly,…
    Larry Elder
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